Chad Everett Myers is an American meteorologist and the severe weather expert for CNN. He joined the network in 1999 based at the Atlanta headquarters. Myers holds the American Meteorological Society Seal of Approval and forecasts significant weather events across the U.S. and Canada daily.
He is also a science reporter on the network covering earthquakes, tsunamis, and other natural disasters. So many stories from the Chilean earthquake and the rescue of the miners, to the Gulf Oil Disaster, for which the network won a Peabody award, have scientific explanations that Myers details very well. Myers aviation knowledge, engineering education, and scientific expertise help him make complicated stories more understandable.
Myers is a University of Nebraska graduate and earned his bachelors of science degree in meteorology in 1987. After college, he forecasted local weather in Detroit; Columbus, Ohio; Oklahoma City; Richmond, Virginia; and Lincoln, Nebraska before joining CNN.
